20th December 1933 - International Aviation Congress, Cairo. Photogravure by the Survey Department, Cairo.  Usage valid until 19 January 1934.

Designs for a set of five stamps were requested in May 1932; three of them were selected: 5m and 10m - Imperial Airways passenger airplane Atlanta; 13m and 15m - Dornier DO-X flying boat;  20m - Airship GRAF ZEPPLIN.

Kamal Elwy, who traveled to Paris and learned aviation, was the first person to call for founding a National Air Company. After many studies and much deliberation, it was agreed to form a company. On April 23 and 25, 1932, the company was set up by approving the primary contract. The company was founded on May 7, 1932 after the royal decree. In the beginning, the primary structure was constituted in cooperation with British Air Works Company under the title of Misr Airwork.  Tala’at Harb, the Egyptian economist, was the backer of that title.

At first, operations were restricted to special flights and hired planes, which started after one year of construction on June 30, 1933 when two new planes had arrived to Al-Maza Airport and became the core of the regular lines. In July 1933, a first line was operated between Cairo and Alexandria. Passengers gathered in the Egypt Tourism office in front of Shepheards Hotel on Ibrahim Pasha Street (Al-Gomhoria Street today) in downtown Cairo. From there, cars transferred them to Al-Maza Airport. This coincided with the Egypt International Aviation Congress on the occasion of which this collection was issued.